feathers. All in jest, but far OT.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: M$ "flash killer"
> Like M$ Windows instead of Apple Ma¢into$h? ;-)
>
> -Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Kitta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:55 PM
> Subject: Re: M$ "flash killer"
>
>
> > I think it takes more than just putting M$ name on some product to make
it
> great and widely accepted especially in the developer community. I believe
> that developers will ultimately gravitate towards product easier to use
> rather than the one managers could be pushing for.
> >
> > TK
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Haggerty, Mike
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:46 PM
> > Subject: RE: M$ "flash killer"
> >
> >
> > Microsoft's decision to promote this technology is great because it
> > shows real innovation and creative thinking.
> >
> > For what it is worth, I expect this product will fail to persuade
> > developers to use it similar to the way Microsoft Music Producer and
> > Microsoft Direct Animation did. But 'Sparkle' is such a better name
> > than, say, 'Microsoft Vector Image Display' - it's nice to see the
> > company making progress on naming their projects.
> >
> > M
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Samuel Neff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:14 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: M$ "flash killer"
> >
> > It'll be 7-10 years before you can consider using this for any real
> > application. It requires the avalon sub-system which means we're
> > talking
> > 2006, and will only work for longhorne users, which means a very
limited
> > user base for a long time (how many people still use windows 98?).
> >
> > Also, a lot can change in that timeframe. OSX is growing in
popularity
> > so
> > MS might not even have so much of a monopoly and cross-platform
support
> > could be even more of an issue--which would negate any possibility of
> > using
> > avalon-specific technologies.
> >
> > However, I could see something to render XAML in Flash or an XSLT to
> > convert
> > XAML to LZX or whatever Royale will use.
> >
> > My $0.02.
> >
> > Sam
> >
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